Some people can’t pass a mirror without taking a glance. Some of us like to look at old photos, when we were younger and other people were still around.

Those are big topics.

This is a small pleasure that I would like to share with you. A look back.

Lakers vs. Celtics, Game 7 of the NBA Finals, June 17, 2010.

If you are a right-thinking American and prefer the Lakers over the Celtics … it might be a good mental exercise to follow that link every month or so and just go over the box … and smile.

My favorite parts:

1. Score by quarters. Lakers down six at the half, down four after three … and then they turn on the jets and score 30 in the fourth quarter. Tells me “come-from-behind victory.” As well as “crushing, come-from-ahead defeat” for the Celtics. Sweet.

2. The understated (you have to search to see it) reminder of the stakes: “Final: Los Angeles leads 4-3 (Game 7 of 7). Yeah. A Game 7 with the Celtics. And the Lakers won. Ha.

3. Pau Gasol’s line. Nineteen points, 18 rebounds. In a Game 7. Huge. (Of course, had he done better than 7-for-13 at the line, he would have been in the 20s in points … and made us a lot less nervous.)

4. The 2-2 behind Derek Fisher’s name for three-point shooting. The 3 D-Fish hit in the fourth quarter, the one at 6:11 that tied the score, made me confident (almost) they would win, after all.

5. The 15 rebounds behind Kobe’s name. The people who despise Kobe (and Lakers fans don’t really understand just how many of them are out there) will bring up the “6-for-24” shooting performance forever. But the instant retort to that is “and 15 rebounds.” Fifteen!

6. Ray Allen’s 3-for-14. What a choke job. Celtics people will try to attach “6-for-24” to Kobe like an anchor, but that’s superior marksmanship compared to Ray-Ray’s 3-for-14 stink bomb. Not to mention the four turnovers and the gagged free throw in the fourth quarter.

7. 53-40.  TheLakers’ rebound edge. Where they won the game. It allowed them to shoot 32.7 percent and still finish on top.

8. KG’s line. Nice shooting game, but we see one huge, fatal hole in his game: three rebounds in 38 minutes. In a game with 98 missed shots, Kevin Garnett got three rebounds. If KG the rebounder shows up, the Celtics win.

9. Ron Artest’s 20 points.  Not great shooting, aside from the free-throw line, but included in there is the 3 with a minute left that pretty much killed the Celtics.

10. Sasha Vujacic’s 2-for-2 from the line. The Machine had a rough year. I’m not sure Phil Jackson did the right thing when he called timeout with 13 seconds left to get Sasha in the game instead of Ron Artest. To shoot free throws, but Sasha hadn’t scored a point and had played only four minutes of the first 47. Sure enough, the Celtics fouled him. But Sasha stepped to the line with 11 seconds left in a two-point game … and cold-bloodedly drained one … was interrupted by a Celtics substitution … and cold-bloodedly sank the second. Celtics fans were counting on The Machine to seize up there, and he drilled those. So clutch. Making it a two-possession game, and the Celtics were dead. Cool.

11. The Lakers shooting 20 more free throws (37-17) than the Celtics. Boston fans will whine about this for as long as they remember this game (which I hope is forever), but the Lakers earned those. They got them by being the aggressive team, but taking the ball into the line. Boston was hit with only six more fouls (25-19), but the Lakers were getting fouled disproportionately while shooting. They wanted it more. They were more active. They deserved to win.

Yes. Go back and look. The Lakers’ first Game 7 victory over those green weasels.

It will never get old.